McKibbon and Kingsolver are both creating change by trying to inform people of the trouble that is going on in our world and environment. The main reason why enough isn’t being done about the struggles and troubles in our environment is that people don’t know enough about it. So many people don’t know the extremity of what is truly going on. The best way to create change is to fill people in; let them know the truth about what is going on. Both of these authors have written books about the issues in the environment. McKibbon went more of the informative route using numbers and statistics to get the point across to his readers. The use of numbers and statistics can be useful because by people seeing what those big numbers mean for the environment can scare people. A lot of people don’t know its that big of an issue until they see those big numbers. Kingsolver went with the fiction route by using characters and a plot to explain what is going on. Her strategy is more “manipulative” as she says. The reader forms a relationship with the characters in the story. The characters then bring up these environmental issues and that is how the reader becomes informed and learns about the issues in the environment. The key to creating change is informing people of the true issue at hand and addressing the seriousness of it and the consequences if nothing is done to resolve them.